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Editors don't get made in Rust because people want better memory safety in an editor. They're made in Rust because people like Rust, and the Rust trademark make
by stracer 3y ago
Editors don't get made in Rust because people want better memory safety in an editor. They're made in Rust because people like Rust, and the Rust trademark makes anything associated more cool, no other language has reached such a godlike marketing status.
- oconnor663 3y agoCounterpoint: The only really pleasant + mainstream + cross-platform languages for new client/desktop software today are Go and Rust. Depending on the Python interpreter or the JRE or whatever is a huge pain when you don't control the environment. Just spitting out a native binary really helps. (I say this as someone who doesn't personally find Go pleasant, but I understand that lots of other people do, and I respect the tradeoffs it made.)
- sph 3y agoIt's called a hype cycle. A decade ago it was editors written in Go.
- stracer 3y agoDid some such editor succeed?